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Martin Huntsfeld/Mike Rasmusson D 2004
This is dagger fencing as composed and devised by master Martin Hunnfelt who was well respected.
Mark when one stabs below to your body, and holds the dagger so that the disc stands forward on the hand.
Counter this thus
Item: hold your left hand in front of you on the belly, and when he stabs down then strike upward with your left hand onto his right arm, and drive through inward under his right arm, so that your left arm comes outward to his right, and step well to him, and lift upward, and break his arm over your left shoulder.
This is another counter
Mark, when he stabs down to you then drop your left hand from above down to the dagger so that your thumb stands before you, and strike up with the right hand from below under his right forearm near the hand, thus you follow the dagger.
Yet a counter
Mark, when he stabs down to you then grasp his hand with your left hand, and step through his arm with your head, and in the step grab his right leg with your right hand, and force him thus as you will. Or with your right hand strike up under his elbow from below backward on the joint.
Yet a counter
Mark, when he stabs down, then grab his arm with the left hand, and push down, and follow with your right hand from below up to the elbow, and with it pull upward, this is good.
This is how one shall wrench out with the dagger
Mark when he holds the dagger so that the disk stands out in front of the hand, then hold yours so too, if he stabs down to you then drive yours at the same time, and bind your dagger onto his, and immediately with your left hand grasp downward to his from above with your thumb toward yourself, and twist your dagger on his right hand, and with your left break his dagger over your dagger upward thus taking his dagger.
Yet a wrench out
Mark, if he has held the dagger, so that the disc stands against his little finger, and stabs up to you, then invert your left hand, and drive up from below, and grasp his forearm near his hand below his dagger, and wrench[1] his dagger upward with your left arm.
Counter this thus
Mark, when you stab down to one from above, and hold your dagger so that the disc lies behind your hand, if he displaces with an inverted hand, whichever hand it is, and will wrench around your right arm, or wrench[2] out the dagger, then twist your dagger over his hand and cut his hand off.
Yet a counter
Mark, if he stabs downward from above, and has held his dagger so that the disc lies behind the hand, then also hold your dagger so, and stab up from below against his stab with an inverted dagger, and leave the hand and don't grapple, and stab to the face.
Yet a counter
Mark, if he holds his dagger so that the disc lies behind the hand, then hold yours so as well, if he then stabs high to you, then stab up from below with an inverted dagger from your left side against his stab, and drive your dagger over his forearm near the hand, and push down with the dagger, and with the left take him forcefully by the elbow.
Mark when you have driven your dagger over his hand, then with the left hand grasp below through your right to your dagger's blade, and push your arms close together, and pull well downward, thus you have his arm trapped.
Mark when he holds his dagger so that the disc stands behind the hand, and stabs high to you, then invert your left hand, and with it grasp his right, and with the other hand stab him where you will or grab his leg with the right, and thus come to wrestle.
Mark, when you have grasped his right hand with your inverted left hand then strike with the right hand from above down to his arm joint, and break his right arm over your right.
Item: when one stabs up from below then you stab strongly from above down taking the stab, and fight him.
Mark, this is called the Key with which one unlocks all locks,[3] this works when one stabs up to you with a dagger, and you hold no weapon in your hands, then stand still, and place your hands over one another from which you shall open up all locks against the dagger one stabs to you high or low.
Mark the counter from the Key with empty hands
Mark if one stabs to you high with the dagger then invert your right hand, and grab his right forearm near the hand, and wrap around his arm, and with the left hand take it strongly by the elbow, and while you take him with strength then thrust his right arm up over your left with your right hand, and with your left arm lift his right over yourself so you have him trapped, and can eat, and drink near him and he can't come away from you.
Yet a counter with empty hands
When one stabs down to you then drop your left hand onto his right, and hold it tight, and grasp with an inverted right hand down to his dagger, and twist his dagger by the point up from below and toward his body, and step with your chest behind on the dagger thus stabbing him with his own dagger.
Still with empty hands
When one stabs down with the dagger to you then grasp his arm with both hands, and step through the arm and hold tight, thus you break his arm and also take the dagger, if you want.
Another
When you have grabbed the arm with both hands, then wrench over, and twist yourself around to your right side, and break his arm over your left shoulder.
Still with empty hands
When one stabs to you, then grasp his arm with both hands, and step well to him, and twist yourself to your right side, and break his arm over your chest.
Or try wrestling
Drive ahead with your left hand to his neck, and stride with your left foot behind his right, and throw him over your left knee from the foot.
With Empty Hands
When he stabs then grasp his right hand with your left, and with the right grasp him below the elbow, and pull it to yourself, and with the left thrust his arm upward, and spring with your right foot behind his left, and throw him from the foot over your right knee.
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